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spacex 4 is preparing for launch to the

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space station later this week and with

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that tons of supplies and new research

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are headed to the station it all happens

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at cape canaveral in florida and lori

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meigs is live today from nearby kennedy

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space center to talk about one of the

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interesting investigations lori

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hi amiko yeah we're here live at kennedy

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space center and that is where a lot of

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the important work is going on to

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process those payloads and get them

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ready for launch joining me now is

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cecilia wigley she's from ames research

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center and she is responsible for

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leading the team that is helping process

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and get these

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these payloads ready for orbit cecilia

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tell us about your rodent research

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project that's what we're going to talk

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about today okay so the rodent research

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one project is the first in a series of

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road research activities that we'll be

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conducting on space station we plan to

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fly about twice a year on every even

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numbered spacex

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and there's a history behind this too in

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history yes we have a long history of

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flying uh and doing experiments with

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rodents uh both mice and rats on the

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shuttle and now we're moving this to the

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new platform of the space station tell

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us about your role here and how you've

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been preparing everything here at

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kennedy okay well i lead the team that's

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responsible for integrating all the

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various requirements that come from

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science

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to implement the the research on station

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so we work with the crew office and do

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crew training crew procedures

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what we've been doing here of course the

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mice have arrived and we're making sure

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that they're housed appropriately in the

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animal care facility here and then our

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hardware team is processing the hardware

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that we'll be launching on spacex4 with

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the rodents and the support hardware

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needed and we're taking a look here and

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i guess their their their habitat their

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habitats right so what we have there is

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basically the habitats the transporter

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and then the access unit that we'll be

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using

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to move the animals back and forth

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between the various pieces of hardware

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we'll be using and it is important

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research with the mice what are we

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trying to learn from all of this uh well

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on the shuttle we were limited to the

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length of a shuttle flight so basically

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14 to 16 days was the maximum we were

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able to

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do experiments

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with moving to the station as a platform

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we can now do long duration experiments

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this first one will be 30 days and then

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we'll be moving on to 60 and 90 day and

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potentially longer experiments on

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station to be able to look at long-term

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effects of microgravity and living

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systems

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and let's talk about cases and nasa the

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partnership here so um basically road

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research is going to be a partnership

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between nasa and cases which is the

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center for the advancements of science

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and space

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cases will be bringing in commercial

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partners

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non-nasa-funded research so

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potentially academia or other government

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agencies

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and the first in a series but we've got

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to get this one off this one off right

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so what happens if we don't get through

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those launch windows well we have two

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attempts in this first launch window

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either saturday or sunday or early in

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the morning if we don't go by sunday

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the hardware will be returned to us with

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the mice inside

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and we will offload them over in the

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animal care facility and start to

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prepare the hardware for another